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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Government has stepped up its response to the drought crisis, with Cabinet Secretary for Public Service, Human Capital Development and Special Programmes, Geoffrey Ruk,u flagging off relief food to Mandera and Turkana counties--two of the hardest-hit regions.

[World Bank] Ouagadougou -- two-day High-Level Forum on Defying Drought (D2) in West Africa concluded today in Ouagadougou with a strong commitment to address the pressing challenges of drought in the region, amid the broader context of climate change and population growth. Senior policymakers from Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Senegal, joined by technical experts from Morocco and Brazil, as well as regional and international institutions and development partners, came together to advance coordinated and practical

[The Conversation Africa] Television nature programmes and scientific papers tend to celebrate the perfection of evolved traits. But the father of evolution through natural selection, Charles Darwin, warned that evolution would produce quirks and "blunders" that reflect a lineage's history.